Nothing had been heard from Syd Barrett for more than 30 years ... The band were at Abbey Road when Barrett coincidentally reappeared from his exile, unannounced, bald and obese, and listened ...

Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original ... comes when the bandmembers recall Barrett suddenly turning up at Abbey Road Studios one day in 1975 — bizarrely, while they were recording ...

Each member of Pink Floyd, especially Roger Waters and David Gilmour, look back on a particular chapter in the band's history ...

Recorded at Abbey Road, "Wish You Were Here" was inspired by Syd Barrett, the founder of Pink Floyd who had left the band years before due to serious mental health concerns. When Barrett showed up ...

A founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter during the band's heavily psychedelic early years. He composed the majority of ...

You Reached for the Stars was mastered at Abbey Road and the booklet even has an homage to ... I believe you are working on releasing a collection of material that you recorded with Syd Barrett. The ...

It is worth, I think, the effort to try and understand the abstract roots of the Beatles' superiority, a superiority that is evident from beginning to end of Abbey Road. One quote (from Peter ...

M ike Richardson, of 60s band Forever Amber, has arranged a charity concert in memory of his friend Dave Parker, another well ...

Throughout its duration from the mid-1960s and into the 2000s, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright influenced countless artists across genres such as ...

They began as a vehicle for Syd Barrett, a warped-minded genius whose interest in psychedelia didn’t stop at the music. The band’s 1967 debut album, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,’ is a ...

The first album to define its own contents as psychedelic was the debut album by Texas garage rockers The 13th Floor Elevators, in October 1966 (The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators).

Pink Floyd's student digs go on sale but at this price you'll have to wish you were here ...